(a) what are public stews?
(b) wasn't Joan of Arc prosecuted for wearing male soldiers' dress?
Dale Hample
Bill East wrote:
>
> THEODORA and DIDYMUS, martyrs (A.D. 303)
>
> . . . the prefect ordered her to be taken to the public stews . . .
> Now there was a young Christian, named Didymus, at Alexandria, who had
> heard the sentence, and he was full of zeal for God, and resolved to
> deliver the virgin from the place of wickedness and peril. therefore
> he went to where she was, dressed in soldier's clothes and armour, and
> shutting the door behind him, he said, "Fear not, my sister. I am thy
> brother in Jesus Christ. I am come to save thee. Change clothese with
> me." So she disguised herself in his cuirass and greaves, and went
> forth. But the agony of fear, and the sudden reaction was too great
> for her tender spirit to bear, and she fell down, and her soul escaped
> to God, and was at rest. Then Didymus was taken, and brought before
> the prefect, and at his command his head was smitten off, and his body
> consumed in a fire.
>
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